No Love in War: a story of Christian nationalism
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Epilogue: Part 2
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"No matter when a woman leaves, she’s left too early, she’s left too late, after all this time, you’re leaving now? Perhaps things weren’...
Epilogue: Part 1
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"To be let go is not the same as leaving." This episode contains Part 1 of the Epilogue, the final chapter of No Love in War.
Chapter 33
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"There is so much more I could say about all this, but then again, it was nothing but more of the same bombardment. Dominion-seeking man sees wom...
Chapter 32
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"What even was love from all these men I knew but special dispensation to treat one woman more cruelly than any other, mere proof of their worthi...
Chapter 31
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Purity culture was in full swing in conservative evangelical Christian churches, schools and campuses across the United States. None of this was...
Chapter 30
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"In 1998, our church magazine set forth the “rich heritage of Southern Presbyterianism,” lamenting the progressing decline of the Presbyteria...
Chapter 29
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Over several long sessions, our professor spoke about the joys of the hetero-marital union, then veered into his true passions, the danger of wo...
Chapter 28
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"For while Christian leaders on the national stages quarrelled and set their sights on the reclamation of land they considered theirs by divine r...
Chapter 27
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Within the first few months of my freshman year at Christian university, one of my fellow incomers left the campus permanently after hitting his...
Chapter 26
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"My high school graduation marked the start of the summer when our pastor stepped into the role of State Chairman for Howard Phillips’s U.S. Ta...
Chapter 25
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"This was a time when a lot of we girls were reading Christian historical romance novels, stories of young and virginal Puritan women, pioneers o...
Chapter 24
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Our pastor, on the other hand, a true believer, was in it to win it. In 1993, speaking at the Biblical Worldview and Christian Education Confere...
Chapter 23
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"“She wouldn’t have done it that way if she really wanted to die.” I understood every ounce of her meaning, I watched as it bared its fangs...
Chapter 22
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"My church was part of a network of churches across the country that held up men like Larry McDonald, like Rousas Rushdoony, like Greg Bahnsen, a...
Chapter 21
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"And then there is Rousas’s 1984 journal entry which refers to Arda’s “extensive fornication after the divorce,” a collection of words wh...
Chapter 20
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"In December, 1995, Reconstructionist Greg Bahnsen died at the age of 47, five years after his divorce was finalized, his wife having left him fo...
Chapter 19
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Almost everything I know about the place of my birth I’ve found online, though I strongly suspect my brother and I were separated from our par...
Chapter 18
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Only now, some final line had been crossed, some internal alarm set off, some awareness achieved that this is not just what people do." Thi...
Chapter 17
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"This is the slavemaster's gospel." This episode contains Chapter 17 of No Love in War.
Chapter 16
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Violence shaded all my church-school days, each moment in between was merely time spent in a holding pen." This episode contains Chapter 16...
Chapter 15
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"To break any of these rules risked revealing that most important and carefully guarded of all secrets: the existence of female desire." Thi...
Chapter 14
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"At some point, I was identified by Mrs. Pastor’s Wife as a potential model of ladylike subordination in our multi-level misogynist marketing s...
Chapter 13
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"In and amongst so much vicious noise, as I sank into the pit of myself, I early on began to look around for other neglected and unknown things.&...
Chapter 12
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"In this cruel community of my childhood, there seemed to be no rest between episodes of conflict. To be sure, we were no different than any othe...
Chapter 11
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Some of us were somehow selected as those who would bide our time in chastity, wait in the wings, hands folded patiently like carefully preserve...
Chapter 10
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Today we will be talking about the ladder of promiscuity.” This episode contains the first chapter in Part 2 of No Love in War: a story of Christ...
Chapter 9
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 9, the last chapter in Part 1 of No Love in War. Here, my church-school participates in an anti-abortion rally at the GA...
Chapter 8
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Please, girls, this has to stop. Whoever is doing this, please stop. I command you to stop. I didn’t stop, there was no stopping in a place li...
Chapter 7
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 7 of No Love in War: a story of Christian Nationalism. Here, my childhood pastor runs for US Congress, securing an endor...
Chapter 6
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 6 of No Love in War. Here, listeners encounter one of the members of the founding family of one of the largest and most...
Chapter 5
27 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 5 of No Love in War.
Chapter 4
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 4 of No Love in War, whose alternate title could be: Guns and God.
Chapter 3
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 3 of No Love in War. "We were opposing forces, living alongside one another in tension, the stresses within and be...
Chapter 2
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 2 of No Love in War.
Chapter 1
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains Chapter 1 of No Love in War. The story of Christofascism begins in earnest. Featuring quotes from "God vs. Caesar: Taking ...
Prologue
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode contains the prologue to No Love in War. I was born in a wilderness end-times cult in Alaska in the 1970s, after which I spent most of m...
No Love in War: a story of Christian nationalism
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a trailer for the audio book of No Love in War: a story of Christian nationalism (Mayfly Books), written by Valerie H. Hobbs, read by th...